Willie Nelson’s gay Valentine song has warmed many a Brokeback lover’s heart. His tribute to gay cowboy love is one of a few indicators that LGBTQ relationships and issues are in the viewfinder, even if only during this film’s craze. This brings to question though, how much LGBTQ people are willing to become commodities?

The Gay Men’s Health Crisis paired with the AIDS Project Los Angeles to create a several hundred-thousand dollar website addressing drug use and unprotected sex among the gay and M-T-F community, as reported in The Gay City News.

Maybe the problem isn’t that the Voice merger will make it conservative, maybe it’s that the city’s current population is too conservative to notice.

It’s a problem when a female journalist who is anything but a sociologist or social scientist pretends to be a man and then writes a book about it.

So long as they’re teaching straight men to dress well and homemakers to decoupage they’re okay.

A roll call of the major players in lesbian print media include GO NYC (local), Curve, Girlfriends, and a few others that for the most, part mimic hetero publications.

New York Magazine’s latest feature “The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School” takes a look at one of the magnet school's cliques whose members are obsessed with sex.

In the beginning of January, New York City politics took a turn for the gay, I mean, better. Christine Callaghan Quinn was elected as the speaker of the City Council, being the first out lesbian/gay politician (and the first Irish person) to hold the position.

Gay and transgender prisoners will have to apply for “protective custody” which is actually 23 hours of lock-down in their cells. Does this sound like protection or punishment?

Daniela Sea, the new genderqueer character Moira on the L word, is only the second out actress on the show. She lends the melodramatic series in its third season a shred of the street-cred that it was sorely lacking.

What’s more striking than two gay/trans-themed films garnering recognition in popular culture is that Felicity Huffman’s acceptance speech was a moving tribute to those who suffer discrimination and hardship because of living trans lives. If only every actor were forced to cultivate the role of a person belonging to a subjugated minority group.